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<p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DNEgvjdM1k</p>Sun, 06 Mar 2016 18:51:00 +0000Arun Rath & Chiquita Paschal62668 at http://wmot.orgHistory Of Slavery, Future Of Diversity Still At Issue At HarvardHarvard Law School's Crest Could Fall Beneath A Wave Of Student Protesthttp://wmot.org/post/harvard-law-schools-crest-could-fall-beneath-wave-student-protest
<div class="fullattribution">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.<img src="http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Harvard+Law+School%27s+Crest+Could+Fall+Beneath+A+Wave+Of+Student+Protest&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDA5MTYwMDQ1MDEzMzE1ODcyMjRmY2FlMA004)"/></div><p>Transcript <p>MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: <p>Yesterday, the dean of Harvard Law School endorsed a recommendation to change the school's official shield because it contains the crest of Isaac Royall, a slave owner whose endowment of land helped establish the school.Sat, 05 Mar 2016 22:03:00 +0000Arun Rath62642 at http://wmot.org'Today We Are His Family': Teen Volunteers Mourn Those Who Died Alonehttp://wmot.org/post/today-we-are-his-family-teen-volunteers-mourn-those-who-died-alone
On the drive to Fairview Cemetery in the Boston neighborhood of Hyde Park, six seniors from Roxbury Latin boys' school sit in silent reflection. Mike Pojman, the school's assistant headmaster and senior adviser, says the trip is a massive contrast to the rest of their school day, and to their lives as a whole right now.<p>Today the teens have volunteered to be pallbearers for a man who died alone in September, and for whom no next of kin was found.Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:12:00 +0000Arun Rath61232 at http://wmot.org'Today We Are His Family': Teen Volunteers Mourn Those Who Died AloneSwapping The Street For The Orchard, City Dwellers Take Their Pick Of Fruithttp://wmot.org/post/swapping-street-orchard-city-dwellers-take-their-pick-fruit
Urban foraging might call to mind images of hipsters picking food out of the trash.<p>But one group in Massachusetts eats only the finest, freshest produce. The League of Urban Canners harvests fruit from trees in Cambridge and Somerville and turns it into jam.<p>Sam Christy, a local high school teacher, started the league four years ago.<p>"I think the first year we thought if we can harvest maybe 50 quarts of jam.Thu, 26 Nov 2015 22:18:00 +0000Arun Rath59405 at http://wmot.orgSwapping The Street For The Orchard, City Dwellers Take Their Pick Of FruitOut Of 'The Object Lesson,' An Education In The Power Of Kept Thingshttp://wmot.org/post/out-object-lesson-education-power-kept-things
Sunday is my last broadcast as host of <em>Weekend All Things Considered</em> at NPR West. I'm moving back to Boston, and with packing well underway, after the broadcast I'll be sleeping between piles of hastily labeled boxes.<p>Weirdly, a couple of weeks ago I experienced a nightmare version of this very scene, when I attended a show called <em>The Object Lesson</em> at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, Calif.<p>"This is not respectable theater.Sun, 27 Sep 2015 22:13:00 +0000Arun Rath57238 at http://wmot.orgOut Of 'The Object Lesson,' An Education In The Power Of Kept Things